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CHAP. 45.—THE ISCHÆMON: TWO REMEDIES.

The Thracians were the first to discover the ischæmon,1
which, it is said, has the property of stanching the flow of
blood, not only when a vein has been opened, but when it has
been cut asunder even. This is a creeping plant; it is like
millet in appearance, and the leaves of it are rough and lanuginous. It is used as a plug2 for the nostrils. The kind that
grows in Italy, attached to the body as an amulet, has the property of arresting hæmorrhage.

1 Sprengel identifies it with the Andropogon ischæmon of Linnæus, the
Woolly andropogon. Fée expresses his doubts as to its identification. It
derives its name "ischæmon," from its property of stanching blood.

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